This list includes core stories that are or will be collected in the primary Hellboy Universe trade paperbacks. It will not include crossovers, guest appearances, Hellboy Junior comics or RPG comics.
Publishing order is based on the first appearance of the first issue or part of that comic, thus The Corpse goes before The Chained Coffin as it ran as a multi-part series before it was collected with The Iron Shoes.
The colours correlate to the spines of the trade paperbacks the stories are collected in.Red = Hellboy, Hellboy in Hell, and Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.
Olive = B.P.R.D. and B.P.R.D. Vampire
Yellow = B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth
Grey = B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know and Koshchei the Deathless
Blue = Lobster Johnson
Green = Abe Sapien
Brown = Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder and Frankenstein
Orange = Sledgehammer 44
Purple = Rise of the Black Flame
Turquoise = The Visitor: How & Why He Stayed
Crimson = The Crimson Lotus
1993
AUGUST 19 ― Hellboy Promo #1 Hellboy 1
1994
MARCH ― Seed of Destruction Hellboy 1
MAY 20 ― Hellboy Promo #2 Hellboy 1
AUGUST ― The Wolves of Saint August Hellboy 3
1995
MARCH ― The Corpse Hellboy 3
AUGUST 2 ― The Chained Coffin Hellboy 3
1996
JANUARY ― The Iron Shoes Hellboy 3
JUNE ― Wake the Devil Hellboy 2
1997
JUNE 25 ― Almost Colossus Hellboy 3
DECEMBER 3 ― A Christmas Underground Hellboy 3
1998
MARCH 4 ― Drums of the Dead B.P.R.D. 1
MARCH 4 ― Heads Hellboy 4
AUGUST 5 ― The Baba Yaga Hellboy 3
AUGUST 26 ― The Right Hand of Doom Hellboy 4
1999
AUGUST 1 ― The Vârcolac Hellboy 4
AUGUST 4 ― Goodbye Mr. Tod Hellboy 4
AUGUST 11 ― Pancakes Hellboy 4
AUGUST 11 ― Box Full of Evil Hellboy 4
AUGUST 11 ― The Killer in My Skull B.P.R.D. 1
SEPTEMBER 8 ― Abe Sapien versus Science B.P.R.D. 1
2000
FEBRUARY 16 ― The Nature of the Beast Hellboy 4
APRIL 26 ― King Vold Hellboy 4
2001
MAY 9 ― Conqueror Worm Hellboy 5
DECEMBER 5 ― B.P.R.D. Promo B.P.R.D. 1
2002
JANUARY 30 ― Hollow Earth B.P.R.D. 1
JULY 24 ― The Third Wish Hellboy 6
2003
MAY 14 ― The Soul of Venice B.P.R.D. 2
JULY 23 ― Dark Waters B.P.R.D. 2
AUGUST 27 ― Dr. Carp's Experiment Hellboy 7
SEPTEMBER 17 ― Night Train B.P.R.D. 2
NOVEMBER 19 ― There's Something Under My Bed B.P.R.D. 2
2004
MARCH ― The Penanggalan Hellboy 7
MARCH ― Born Again B.P.R.D. 4
MARCH 3 ― Plague of Frogs B.P.R.D. 3
JULY 7 ― The Troll-Witch Hellboy 7
AUGUST 25 ― Another Day at the Office B.P.R.D. 2
NOVEMBER 3 ― The Dead B.P.R.D. 4
2005
JUNE 1 ― The Ghoul (or Reflections on Death and The Poetry of Worms) Hellboy 7
JUNE 22 ― The Island Hellboy 6
AUGUST 31 ― The Black Flame B.P.R.D. 5
2006
FEBRUARY 1 ― Makoma (or A Tale Told by a Mummy in the New York City Explorers' Club on August 16, 1993) Hellboy 7
APRIL 12 ― The Universal Machine B.P.R.D. 6
DECEMBER 13 ― The Hydra and the Lion Hellboy 7
2007
FEBRUARY 23 ― They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships Hellboy 10
MARCH 14 ― Garden of Souls B.P.R.D. 7
MAY 2 ― Darkness Calls Hellboy 8
AUGUST 8 ― Killing Ground B.P.R.D. 8
SEPTEMBER 5 ― The Iron Prometheus Lobster Johnson 1
OCTOBER 3 ― The Vampire of Prague Hellboy 7
2008
JANUARY 9 ― 1946 B.P.R.D.: 1946
FEBRUARY 6 ― The Drowning Abe Sapien 1
MARCH 5 ― Revival B.P.R.D. 12 "Chapter 2"
MAY 3 ― The Mole Hellboy 10 / Hellboy LE 5
MAY 3 ― Bishop Olek’s Devil B.P.R.D.: 1946
MAY 3 ― Out of Reach B.P.R.D. 10
JUNE 11 ― War on Frogs #1 B.P.R.D. 12 "Chapter 1"
JUNE 25 ― The Ectoplasmic Man B.P.R.D.: Being Human
JULY 2 ― The Crooked Man Hellboy 10
JULY 9 ― The Warning B.P.R.D. 10
AUGUST 13 ― Witchball! Hellboy 10
OCTOBER 29 ― In the Chapel of Moloch Hellboy 10
NOVEMBER 5 ― Murderous Intent Witchfinder 1
DECEMBER 3 ― The Wild Hunt Hellboy 9
DECEMBER 10 ― War on Frogs #2 B.P.R.D. 12 "Chapter 3"
2009
JANUARY 7 ― How Koshchei Became Deathless Hellboy: Weird Tales (HC)
JANUARY 14 ― The Black Goddess B.P.R.D. 11
MARCH 4 ― Baba Yaga's Feast Hellboy: Weird Tales (HC)
JUNE 6 ― And What Shall I Find There? B.P.R.D.: 1947
JUNE 10 ― War on Frogs #3 B.P.R.D. 12 "Chapter 5"
JULY 1 ― In the Service of Angels Witchfinder 1
JULY 8 ― 1947 B.P.R.D.: 1947
OCTOBER 14 ― The Burial of Katharine Baker Witchfinder 1
OCTOBER 28 ― The Haunted Boy Abe Sapien 2
DECEMBER 9 ― War on Frogs #4 B.P.R.D. 12 "Chapter 4"
DECEMBER 23 ― The Bride of Hell Hellboy 11